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I have never read Dune and my knowledge of it was the David Lynch film and the fact there is a man-worm-god-emperor. While I can't speak for anyone but myself, my problem is that his films feel like someone didn't really think about the world beyond the way a machine would. @Bartimaeus previously mentioned his sterile sets in Bladerunner 2049 as an example of this, it just doesn't feel like anyone actually inhabits the worlds Villeneuve builds, it may as well be the Neil Breen green screen with substantially bigger budgets and polish. This also spills over to the characters, Android Ryan Gosling can be forgiven for being mechanical but when every character in Dune feels like a drone created to further Plot instead of a real person that's just **** and disrespectful to a cast that talented.

Maybe the issue is that you already read the book, so it's not living up to what you imagined when reading it? For me there plenty of memorable moments in the movie. Starting from the first father/son interaction when going off the home planet, to meeting the matriarch, to his father being betrayed and then killed, meeting the Fremen and the duel. But I have to admit that his set oftentimes overshadows the characters, but I would not say it's because they are bad, but because his sets are so good.

Loud and proud. Villaneuve saying that dialogue doesn't matter and film would be better off without it feels like a parody, something I would mockingly ascribe to a director like him that clearly only cares about the looks and mood of a film, except he actually just said it outright and meant it seriously. Consistent flat-line characters and mechanical dialogue that only do the absolute bare minimum just means I never have much reason to care about his pretty little pictures. Again, it's my own tastes, but literally all of my favorite films are very character and dialogue-driven, meanwhile this bozo's out here saying none of that matters. Not exactly a surprise that he and I do not see eye-to-eye on film if that's how he feels about it.

The new Dune movie's fans put me off seeing it, so will maybe catch it on TV some day. Only other films of his I have seen was BR:2049 which I was underwhelmed by

I think Dune is the only movie of his that I've seen. My first intro to Dune was the Lynch movie and that was followed by a few Dune video games, then I read the book. Don't get me wrong, I did actually like the movie, but I'm really easy... just ask my wife. Still, the vibe I got was cold and sterile... mechanical even. I'm not a great critic so I'll just stop trying to explain.

Goal nr. 02/2024 has been achieved few days ago February 25, 21:30 – New Game + of Dark Souls: Remastered on PS4 has been completed :). The second ending was of course To Link the Fire, which gave me another trophy in my Platinum run. During this run, the goal was all miracles trophy, and all missing weapon ascension trophies, with the exception of Knight's one, for which I need to defeat Sif one more time, and then run all the way to Anor Londo blacksmith. During NG+, I have found out, that this game started to feel much easier with melee character than with the sorcerer one. The only exception was Kalameet, which was destroying me for almost 3 hours and almost always around 10-20% HP mark. I am just happy, that I have learned how to control my rage, as few years ago, I would be most likely in need of a new controller

Yeah- killing Thaos to take his place as the true worthy champion of Woedica works for RP purposes- thanks for the suggestion!

Love most of his stuff. You people just angry haters.

So Sony pretty much killed PSVR 2. PC support and all that stuff. I think that's another way of saying 'No more AAA games from Sony, just resort to whatever is out there'. Same as the PS Vita I guess. How many of you chaps are 'VR friendly' ?

Made a CoH account and slipped onto Torchbearer. Ah, the nostalgia.

Having just watched the entire Ethan Hawke tiktok, it goes even harder than what the article quoted. I would love to see a movie without any dialogue. But that would still require interesting characters and nothing that Villeneuve has done makes me think he can pull that off as all his major characters are flatter than Hank Hill's ass. There is no damn emotion in any of his films and as such all of the sound is noise and all the image is lifeless. Cinema is not just photography with motion and sound.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix), episode 1. Unlike Hazbin Hotel, I wasn't excited for this one, because I knew it was going to be awful...but I have to admit, I vastly underestimated just how awful it would be. I sat through this with my nieces (who love the original cartoon, we've watched all of it multiple times together over the last few years) and conspired to stay very neutral during this so that I would not ruin it for them in the event that they liked it. I was very mindful, for their sake...honestly, I really was, and so it warmed the deepest, darkest corners of my twisted heart that I was not alone in hating it. I'm proud of them, they're good kids.

note - OP is asking about BG1 and 2, not BG3.

News from Mordor. Russian billionaire who owns a number of metallurgy factories, things kinda essential for war machine, detained on account of him allegedly illegally privatizing them in the nineties, factories nationalized. Wonder if it's a start or just an episode. Please be a start.

Speaking of mega length videos, here's one where my interest-meter was enough to make me click on it. He spends maybe 2-5 minutes describing a game a little, steam user reaction if any, release/ea status if any, etc. So it was easy to spam the spacebar arrow keys to skip over any titles I wasn't immediately intrigued by - thus for me it was a 30 minute video, hardehar. The actual more city-builder focused (vs. train sims, life sims, factory/shop/tycoon more rts sims, god games etc) starts around 2 (hrs):28(min) I think. I saw a few new ones to put in the Wishlist. lol. Seems to be several indie Spore-like games being made, too.

Richard Lewis

I've just tested now: sadly, Dragon Pendant doesn't work, summons doesn't remain "eatable" on the field when they die

America's Bitch, indeed